What Shall I Do With Jesus? # 5 (and others)

What Shall I Do With Jesus? # 5 (and others)


Look at Him in His baptism of John, when God the Father stopped making worlds and leaned over the battlements of Heaven and said: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17).

Herschel the astronomer was a Christian. So were Jonathan Edwards, Blackstone, Gladstone, Washington, Lincoln, Lee, Queen Victoria, Grant - honored in his tour around the world as no man has ever been honored before. When Grant reached Jerusalem a feast was proposed for him, and he said: "No, not in this city where my Saviour bled and died. Let me get alone; I want to weep."

Look at the love the pure and holy bear Him. "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?"

I am not worshiping a sleeping Christ in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea, but a living, ruling reigning Christ, at the right hand of God, the Christ who is coming to judge the quick and the dead.

"What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?" You ought to have to do because of the sacrifice He made for you.

If Shakespeare should enter this tabernacle, we would all stand up and bow. If Jesus Christ should sweep down that aisle, we would all kneel and bow our heads in humility as He swept by in all His regal splendor.

Oh, if Jesus could come down here, I wouldn't let Him get all the way here. I would jump from the platform and go to meet Him. He saved me and my wife and children, and I'll go where He commands me to go, I'll go where He wants me to go. We ought to do that for Him because of the sacrifice He made for us.

Savonarola stood speaking in the square at Florence. The people surged around God's lionhearted preacher who told that gang of ecclesiastical crooks and thugs where to head in. He hurled the anathemas of God at them until they incinerated him to ashes because he dared rebuke their crookedness and their infamy. Savonarola stood preaching. He knew that these were the questions uppermost in the minds of the Italians: What sort of government will emerge from all this? Will it be a Republican form or will it continue the monarchy with the king? The second question was, What will be our religion? Will it be the star and the crescent of the Mohammedan, or will it be the Cross of Jesus Christ?

Those were the questions, and as they all surged to hear him, he climbed on top of his pulpit where the great crowd could see him and cried out, "Jesu Christo al nostero sino salvatoro" - Jesus Christ, our King and Saviour."

Down the streets of Florence they surged. Through every building and every alley they met the oncoming crowd, and they caught the spirit. Out into the country they went until it seemed to leap as by magic from mountain peak to mountain peak, until all Italy rang with the cry: "Jesus Christ is our King and Saviour." Tonight the Cross of Jesus Christ waves over Italy instead of the star and crescent of the Mohammedan.

Oh, Jesus Christ waits to be your King. What is your answer? Are you ready to crown Him? Are you ready to say, "Christ is ours"? Or will you dip the Cross of Jesus into the forces of evil? What is your answer?

Get up and let me look at you. Come on, whoever you are. I don't give a rap where you come from or who you are in the world, come on! Come on!

Don't sit down; come on. You wouldn't sit down if we played the Star Spangled Banner. Come on! The Cross of Jesus Christ is waving over the crowd. Come on, and give me your hand and stand with me.

~Billy Sunday~

(The End)
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Two Great Things Which Jesus Christ Undertook


Our Lord Jesus Christ, by once suffering, suffered for all the sins of the elect - past, present, and to come. The infinite wrath of God the Father fell on Him, for all the sins of the chosen ones. The wrath of God was infinite wrath, and the sufferings of Christ were infinite sufferings.

All the sins of God's people, in their absolute number, from first to last, were laid upon Christ; who meritoriously purchased perfect remission of all their sins.

There are two great things which Jesus Christ undertook for His redeemed ones. The one was to make full satisfaction to divine justice for all their sins - this He did by His suffering and death. The other was to yield most absolute conformity to the law of God, both in nature and life. By His suffering and death, He has freed all His redeemed ones from hell. By the imputation of His absolute conformity to the law of God, He has qualified all the redeemed ones for heaven.

~Thomas Brooks~